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They break your people in pieces, Yahweh, And afflict your heritage.
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A Crushing Persecution
Commentators explain that the phrase "break in pieces" signifies a brutal and violent oppression. It's not just hardship, but a deliberate attempt to crush, trample, and destroy God's people. This highlights the severe reality of persecution faced by the faithful, both in the psalmist's time and throughout history.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
They break in pieces your people - They tread down; they grind; they crush. The Hebrew word is often used as meaning to crush under foot; to…
19th Century
Anglican
Break in pieces. —Or, crush. (See Isaiah 3:15, where the word is in parallelism with grind the faces of the poor.
Baptist
How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves? They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and…
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16th Century
Protestant
They break in pieces thy people, O Jehovah! Having spoken of their discourse or language as vain-glorious and shameless, he proceeds to sp…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
They break in pieces your people, O Lord Not the Israelites, as Kimchi; but the church of Christ, by their anathemas…
We may boldly appeal to God, for He is the almighty Judge by whom every man is judged. Let this encourage those who suffer wrong to bear it silentl…
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